thatch rake

plural thatch rakes

1. A rake with double-edged, crescent-shaped blades, used for slicing through and pulling out thatch from a lawn.

   A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake.

   2007, Trey Rogers, Lawn Geek: Tips and Tricks for the Ultimate Turf From the Guru of Grass, →ISBN

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   You may want to entertain buying a thatch rake that is more sturdy. One side of this rake has curved points for raking and the other side has flared points for cultivating, seeding, or working fertilizer into the ground.

   2004, Thomas J. Neviaser, Man's Unofficial Guide to the Use of His Garage, →ISBN, page 59

   Use a thatch rake that has specially designed blades instead of normal tines. You'll need some elbow grease to work the rake into the lawn and remove the thatch.

   2004, Jerry Baker, Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic, →ISBN

2. alternativeAlternative form of thatch-rake.

   He then retrieved a metal thatch rake and used it to tamp down the ashes.

   2011, Stephen W. Trout, My Father's Son, →ISBN, page 128

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   The fire engine, presented to the town in 1700, was frequently in service, and compulsory thatch rakes, for pulling burning thatch from buildings, hung on the fronts of buildings with a tub of water beneath.

   1978, Ivan Green, The book of Dover: Cinque Port, port of the passage, gateway to England

   On the mezzanine floor, where the main Norfolk Studies stock had been, my abiding memory is of a fireman in breathing apparatus holding a hose and a thatch rake spraying and raking over a three foot high pile of burning paper and ash.

   1996, Hilary Hammond, “Norfolk and Norwich Central Library: the emerging phoenix”, in New Library World, volume 97, number 8